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WILLIAM G. RYAN.
The honored subject of this sketch, a successful agriculturist and dairy- man of Cicero township, Tipton county, Indiana, and the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of fine farming land, has obtained an enviable repu- tation throughout his community as a man of shrewdness and sagacity and also a man who has obtained his present comfortable position in life, not by any questionable methods, but by the persistent application of indomitable perseverance and unquestioned integrity. A firm believer in the great truth of the brotherhood of man, he has ever been guided by the principle laid down in the Golden Rule, and his life has been so ordered that no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil has ever rested upon him.
William G. Ryan, who resides about three and one-half miles east of the city of Tipton, was born on June 15, 1891, where he now resides. He is the son of James T. and Mary (Gleason) Ryan. James T. Ryan, who was born December 18, 1858, in St. Mary's, Mercer county, Ohio, and died April 2, 1903, was the son of Patrick and Catherine ( Doyle) Ryan. Patrick first saw . the light of day in county Kildare, Ireland. He emigrated from the old sod to this country as a young man, landing at New Orleans, Louisiana, and coming up the river to Cincinnati, Ohio. From that city he subsequently removed to Mercer county, in the Buckeye state, and took up agriculture, remaining in that county the rest of his life and rearing a family of six children, namely : Sarah, Mary, James T., Margaret, William and Cath- arine. Of these children, James T., the subject's father, attended the com- mon schools in his boyhood, after completing which he took a normal course in preparation for the work of teaching, in which he subsequently engaged for twenty-one years, during all of this long period being also engaged in agriculture. In 1888 James T. Ryan purchased the farm where the im- mediate subject of this review now resides and began the cultivation of the same. He was married August 16, 1882, in Greensburg, Indiana, to Mary Gleason, the daughter of William and Bridget (Ryan) Gleason, who came from near Dublin in the Emerald Isle to this country, settling in Decatur county, Indiana, where they were farmers and where William became a man of prominence in the community. They were the parents of four children, who were Mary, Winnie, Josephine (deceased) and Bridget. To the union of James T. and Mary (Gleason) Ryan were born the following children : Mrs. Mary Cox; Agnes and Anna are living at home; Lauretta; (28)
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William G., the immediate subject of this sketch; Daniel E. is also living under the parental rooftree. James T. Ryan is a member of the Catholic church and belongs to the Knights of Columbus lodge in Tipton.
The early education of William G. Ryan was acquired in the Union and Plum Grove schools and this has been supplemented by two years in Purdue University, where he is devoting his attention to studies in agricul- ture. He is very successfully engaging in the business of dairying and hog feeding, conducting his operations along these lines according to the most improved and scientific methods and laying the foundation for a splendid future in his chosen vocation. He is a deep student of the best thought in all that pertains to his business and is a wide reader of literature pertain- ing to the subject, being a firm believer in the results of balanced and scienti- fic feeding, also breeding along only the best blood lines. Such men as Mr. Ryan are revolutionizing the great basic industry of agriculture and stock raising and their courage in breaking away from old ideas when newer and better methods have presented themselves is deserving of the commendation of their fellow men.
JOSEPH B. ENNEKING.
One of the most evident things to the thoughtful farmer is that life at no state is a bed of roses. There are thorns, and many of them, along the path of farming life, and the lucky ones are they who are pierced by the fewest of the thorns. It will not be disputed that all persons should keep in view the necessity of pulling out the thorns from those who are less for- tunate. Realizing the fact that there are great opportunities for the diligent worker, the subject of this sketch bent every energy to advance himself in farming. The result is that he has made a name for himself among the leading agriculturists and stock raisers of his community. He has worked his way to success and prosperity, and has so ordered his course in all the relations of life as to command the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens.
Joseph B. Enneking was born February 1, 1880, in Franklin county, Indiana, near Brookville. He was a son of John D. and Mary ( Wahman) Enneking. John D. was born in Franklin county and came to Tipton county with his family about twenty-six years ago. Their three children were reared in this county: Elizabeth, who married Thomas Conley; Joseph B., the sub- ject of this sketch, and Edward J., now in Arizona.
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Joseph B. Enneking received his education in the schools of Tipton county, and worked on his father's farm in the summer when he was not in school. He was married on October 14, 1908, to Agnes Walsh, who was born in Elyria, Ohio. Her parents were Martin and Margaret (Kelch) Walsh. Her father was born in Ireland and came to this country when he was a young man with his father. There were nine children in the Walsh family : Mary, deceased wife of George Gall; Thomas E., deceased; John, who is living in Ohio; Walter, who is now in Colorado; William R., who mar- ried Ella Gall, and lives in this township; Joseph P., deceased; Bernard, who is in Ohio; Cecelia, deceased, and Agnes, the wife of the subject of this sketch. Mr. and Mrs. Enneking have three children, Cecelia Margaret, Robert Joseph and Mary Agnes.
Mr. Enneking has been a stanch supporter of the Democratic party all his life, although he has never sought any political preferment of any kind, though on March 3, 1914, he was appointed road supervisor. Religiously, he has long been a member of St. John's congregation in the city of Tipton. and has always contributed liberally to its support. Mr. and Mrs. Enneking are very sociable and the spirit of hospitality pervades their home. They have a large circle of warm friends who esteem them for their genuine worth.
J. W. STODDARD.
The enterprising and progressive agriculturalist whose career is here briefly set forth comes from the historic commonwealth of Ohio. Many of the best citizens of our state have come from our sister state on the east and they are always welcome additions to our population.
J. W. Stoddard, the proprietor of Pine Grove farm, was born in Guern- sey county, Ohio, on February 11, 1861. His parents were James and Jane M. Stoddard, his father being a native of Butler county, Pennsylvania, and a farmer all his life. In 1849 when the California gold fever was at its height the father of the subject of this sketch made the trip to California by the way of the Isthmus of Panama and was much more fortunate than many other thousands of those who made the trip. Although his health was badly impaired, he was lucky in making what the miners call a "strike" and he brought back with him sixteen hundred dollars in gold, which he had minted at the government mint in Philadelphia. After his return east he moved to Guernsey county, Ohio, where he died in 1871, his interment
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taking place at Mt. Lebanon, Ohio, his widow surviving him many years, not passing away until October 20, 1912. Mr. and Mrs. James Stoddard were the parents of three children : Margaret, deceased; Mrs. Martha Car- son, and J. W., the subject of this sketch.
J. W. Stoddard received his early education in the common schools of Ohio and Indiana and spent his early boyhood days in the manner of lads of his time, attending school in the winter and working on the farm during the summer months. He accompanied his parents to Indiana in the early part of the seventies and was of valuable assistance to his mother in getting the farm now owned by Mr. Stoddard improved and in a high state of culti- vation. At the early age of twenty he began farming on his own responsi- bility by renting his mother's farm and such was his diligence and industry that he was enabled to buy out the other heirs within a few years.
Mr. Stoddard was united in marriage on October 5, 1904, to Christine King and this union has been blessed with four children, Louella, Martha, Florence G., Velma M. Mr. Stoddard is a man who takes an unusual amount of interest in his home life and prefers above all things to be with his family as much as possible. In his political affiliations he has given his preference to the Prohibition party and is a sincere and able advocate of the tenets of that organization. In his life, character and achievements are exemplified the best type of symmetrically developed American manhood and citizen- ship, his influence having always been on the right side of every moral question. He is generous in his donations to all worthy objects whereby his fellow men may be benefited.
In closing this sketch, it will doubtless be of interest to the reader to review briefly the ancestral, history of the Stoddard family. James Stod- dard, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came from Ireland, from Scotch-Irish parentage, and his wife came from the same place. He apparently settled on a farm located on Washington pike, Washington county, Pennsylvania, not a great distance from what is now Pittsburgh. It was here that Robert Stoddard, the subject's grandfather, was born, in the year 1788. Later James Stoddard moved to a farm in Moon township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, located near Shousetown, a small town on the Ohio river, and it was on this farm that Robert Stoddard was married to a girl by the name of Margaret Ann McClelland, who was a native daughter of Ireland, whence she had come at the age of seven, or thereabouts. After Robert Stoddard's marriage his father, James Stoddard, gave him one hun- dred acres of land off the end of his farm, and this is where they lived and
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raised their family, of which James, the subject's father, was the oldest of twelve children.
Robert Stoddard died September 24, 1864, on this same farm. Mar- garet Ann, his wife, died February 9, 1876, at the age of eighty-one years, on the farm of William Hood, husband of Margaret Ann Stoddard, her daughter, located in Hopewell township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, just a short distance from the Robert Stoddard farm. Out of the family of twelve children, there are but three living, Mrs. William Hood, Mrs. Elizabeth Clever, both of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Andrew Clever, of near McKee's Rocks, near Pittsburgh. Two of the family, Matilda and Robert, died quite young, possibly in the neighborhood of two or three years of age. Then there was another born, called Robert, who was a veteran of the Civil war and was a Ohio river steamboat captain and pilot by trade. He was drowned at about the age of forty and left a wife and one child by the name of James, who now lives in East Palestine, Ohio. George, another son, lived on a farm near Beaver, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he died at the age of forty-nine, leaving a family of seven children, of whom there are only four living at the present time, Robert Lackey and George Wesley, of Kansas, and Ella Jewett and Lydia Stoddard, of Los Angeles, California. Mary, a daughter, married a man named Robert Stewart and lived near Pittsburgh. She died at the age of about fifty, leaving a family of four children, Maggie, Ida, Harry and Robert, all dead except Robert, who lives where he was born. John, another son, married, moved west and died in Kansas, at the age of about seventy, leaving a family of four chil- dren, Grace and Eva, of Kansas, and Alice and Guy, of Los Angeles, Cali- fornia.
THOMAS J. PAUL.
It is the distinctive province of this publication to make reference to' those honored citizens who have contributed to the industrial and civic progress of Tipton county. There is an element of particular consistency when we are permitted to review the career of those who have passed their entire lives within the borders of the county and who stand as scions of the sturdy and noble pioneer stock through whose interposition the era of de- velopment was ushered in. The subject of this sketch is a native son of the county and is numbered among the alert and progressive farmers of his
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county. He has reached his present degree of success only by the application of good, honest, hard work and for this reason deserves the credit of being a valuable member of the community in which he lives.
Thomas J. Paul, the son of John J. and Caroline E. (Dentz) Paul, was born about three miles south of Tipton on August 26, 1871. His father was born in Wayne county, Indiana, and came to Tipton county when he was fourteen years of age with his parents, Isaac and Elizabeth Paul, the grandparents of the subject of this sketch. To Mr. and Mrs. John J. Paul were born four children: Isaac, who lives at Atlanta, Indiana; Thomas J., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. E. E. Kuhn, who has one daughter, Linnie Pauline; Frederick S.
Thomas J. Paul grew up on his father's farm, assisting in the farm work and learning those secrets of success which are demanded in that arduous and exacting occupation. He received a good practical education in the public schools, finishing his schooling at what was known as the Dixon school. Shortly after reaching his majority he went to Tipton and worked in a meat market for a short time, but upon his marriage he rented a farm and has been engaged in agricultural pursuits ever since.
Mr. Paul was united in matrimony on September 8, 1897, to Estella Whelchel, the daughter of T. C. and Isabella J. ( Alexander ) Whelchel. This union has been blessed with six children: Edna E., Glenn, Chlorice, Frieda, Madlin and Edwin. The children are being given the best of educational advantages and are a delight and joy to their fond parents.
Mr. Paul mingles much with men and is one of the leading Democrats of his township and an influential factor in public affairs. He is now serv- ing as precinct committeeman, but has never been dazzled by the allurements of public distinction. His farming interests demand his time and for this reason he can not devote much of his energy to active campaigning. He is not only a progressive and thoroughly up-to-date farmer and stock raiser. but is also a natural financier, which quality has enabled him to look ahead, take advantage of opportunities and make judicious investments which in the end have tended greatly to his material interests. While successful in all branches of agriculture, he also raises fine grades of live stock, his cattle, horses and hogs being of the best breeds, and he derives no small amount of his income from the sale of his live stock. In the prosecution of his labors he has recourse to the latest and most improved methods, and as a modern farmer he has few peers in the county. While enterprising in all his undertakings and abreast of the times in all things pertaining to advanced
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agriculture, he has also been liberal in the matter of improving his home and adding to its attractiveness and beauty.
Mr. Paul is a man of broad, liberal views, essentially progressive in his ideas, and his influence has tended greatly to advance the standard of farm- ing in his community, besides making for the general growth and develop- ment of the country. He is a quiet and unassuming man who attends strictly to his own affairs and whose life forcibly illustrates the value of a sterling integrity, honorable dealing and upright conduct.
ARTHUR LEININGER.
Within the pages of this book will be found individual mention of many worthy citizens of Tipton county who have proved how great are the possibilities for attaining success and independence through the proper carry- ing forward of the great fundamental industry of agriculture, and among the number it is pleasing to note that not a few have recently come to this county because of its reputation as a fine agricultural section. Although the subject of this sketch has been in the county for a period of only five years, he has already gained an enviable reputation as a progressive and up-to-date farmer in every respect.
Arthur Leininger, the proprietor of a fine eighty-acre farm in Cicero township, Tipton county, was born on November 10, 1878, in Dearborn county, Indiana. His parents were George and Anna (Doverberger) Lein- inger, his father being a native of that county and who spent the greater part of his life there. Mr. and Mrs. George Leininger reared a large family of seven children, all of whom are living: Elmer, Arthur, Mrs. Emma Meister, Clara. Bertha, Estella and Edgar.
Before coming to Tipton county, Mr. Leininger was married to Eliza- beth Schulenborg, the daughter of George and Dora (Sandmann) Schulen- borg, and their marriage has been blessed with two children, Lucile and Doris. Mr. Leininger is a man of very decided domestic tastes and is devoted to his wife and family.
Mr. Leininger is connected with the Democratic party and is interested in the principles advocated by his party. Religiously, he is affiliated with the Lutheran church and contributes of his means to the support of that denomination. He is a quiet and unostentatious man, who is animated by , correct principles and deep human sympathies and has retained the friendship
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of all who have come within his sphere of influence. He has won for himself in the comparatively short time that he has been in the county the unqualified esteem of his neighbors, and he bids fair to become one of the widest and best known men of his adopted county. He possesses mature judgment and sound discretion and embodies many of the qualifications of the ideal man and citizen. Courteous in his relations with others, upright in all of his dealings and in everything governed by a high sense of honor, he makes friends everywhere he goes. His devotion to truth and his loyalty to princi- . ple have made his influence felt with all with whom he has come in contact.
WILLIAM M. STURGEON.
Among the younger farmers of Tipton county there is no one who occupies a more prominent place than the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He easily ranks with the most enterprising and up-to-date in the county, being thoroughly modern in all his undertakings and decidedly progressive in his ideas and tendencies. In his intercourse with his fellow men his real worth is best known and most highly appreciated and to his industry, sterling dignity and indomitable energy he owes much of his suc- cess in life.
William M. Sturgeon was born February 16, 1876. His parents were Ewing and Fannie (Hancock) Sturgeon, his father being born in Jackson county, Indiana, in 1837. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was David Sturgeon and he came from Kentucky to Indiana early in the history of the state and settled in Jackson county. In that county Ewing started farming and was regarded as one of the best farmers in the county when he decided to move to Tipton county, where he now resides on his farm of eighty acres. Mr. and Mrs. Ewing Sturgeon were the parents of two children, Mrs. Catherine Stewart and William, the subject of this sketch.
William Sturgeon attended the district schools of his county and re- ceived a good practical education, which has been improved by wide read- ing and travel. As a youth he learned all the details of farming, so that when he had a farm of his own he was well equipped to manage it to the best advantage and with the largest returns. Mr. Sturgeon is the owner of a farm in Hamilton county, this state, but resides on his father's farm in Cicero township, Tipton county.
Mr. Sturgeon was married in January, 1902, to Helena Holmes and
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they are the parents of four fine children, Clifford, Geneva, Minnie M. and Paul.
Like all enterprising citizens, Mr. Sturgeon believes in good govern- ment and a strict enforcement of the law, and to these ends takes an interest in putting forward men who are well qualified for holding local offices. He is an excellent and praiseworthy citizen and discharges his duty as becomes a true American. As a neighbor he is kindly disposed and accommodating, and his influence at all times has made for good among those with whom he has been brought in contact. His personal honor and high character have won him a conspicuous place in the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens.
GUY ISRAEL HOOVER, A.M., D.B.
Although yet comparatively a young man, the subject of this review has accomplished much toward ameliorating the condition of his fellow men, often laboring with disregard for his own welfare if thereby he might attain the object sought-to make some one better and happier. Such a life as his is rare and is eminently worthy of emulation, being singularly free from all that is deteriorating or paltry, for his influence is at all times uplifting and thousands of people have been made better for having known him.
Guy Israel Hoover, A. M., D. B., was born at Croton, Licking county, Ohio, November 12, 1872, the son of Giles W. and Lucretia (Green) Hoover, both natives of the Buckeye state and the parents of ten children, namely : Amy died in infancy; Clara is the wife of Henry Sanford, of near Johns- town, Ohio; Carl S., merchant, of Peoria, Ohio; Stanton E., bank cashier, of Croton, Ohio; Linus G., expert mechanic, of Columbus, Ohio; Flora, principal of the high school at Granville, Ohio: Minnie is the wife of T. J. Bulford, of Hilliard, Florida: Demas, a merchant and mayor of Croton, Ohio; Guy Israel; Lillian is the widow of L. E. Leamon, of Croton, Ohio, and is the postmistress at that place.
Rev. Hoover's father was reared in Licking county, Ohio, and was a student in Granville Academy, afterward teaching for several years, at the end of which period he engaged in the operation of a carriage and wagon factory and repair shop at Croton. Ohio, where he spent the rest of his days and died on February 28, 1886, in his fifty-fifth year. His wife survives him and makes her home in Croton, she being a member of the Christian church, as was her husband, he having been an elder for many years.
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The paternal grandfather of the subject was Mahlon Hoover, and he and his wife, whose maiden name was Ruhamah Williams, were pioneers in Licking county, Ohio, where they spent their lives as farmers. Giles W. was the only child born to this union. After the death of his first wife, Mah- lon Hoover again married, his second wife being Polly Ashbrook, and to this union were born the following children: Elam, J. Newton, Truman, Byron, Cordelia, Mary, Sylvia, and Gilman, who died in infancy.
Rev. Hoover's maternal grandparents, Jonathan Hazel and Susanna ( Mullen) .Green, were natives of Ohio and followed farming. They were the parents of a large family, the grandmother living to the extreme age of ninety-one years, dying at Thompson, Illinois, to which place she had moved after her husband's death.
Guy Israel Hoover was reared in Licking county, Ohio, in the village of Croton and attended the public schools there. On completing his ele- mentary education, the subject attended Granville Academy, Hiram Prepara- tory School, Denison University, Hiram College and the University of Chi- cago, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts on his graduation from the regular classical course in Hiram College, the degree of Bachelor of Di- vinity being acquired in the graduate divinity school of the University of Chicago, and that same institution granted the subject the degree of Master of Arts because of a year's additional study. he later doing another year's work toward the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
On July 12, 1900, Rev. Hoover was united in the holy bonds of matri- mony to Virginia Dillinger. daughter of Archibald A. and Fannie Louise ( Kempher) Dillinger, her parents being of good old German stock. Mrs. Hoover was born at Findlay, Ohio, March 9, 1875. She is a graduate of the Findlay (Ohio) high school and of Hiram College. Her father and mother, who were born in Ohio, are now residents of Oklahoma City. Oklahoma, and are the parents of the following children: Myrtle is the wife of William M. Demland, of Shawnee, Oklahoma; Ina, of Oklahoma City. Oklahoma ; Mrs. Hoover; Pearl Fern is the wife of Lamont Johnson, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mrs. Hoover's paternal grandparents were natives of the Key- stone state and were the parents of nine children, as follows: Mary, Cyrus, Samuel died young. Franklin, Eliza, Archibald, Melvin and Rosecrans. Her maternal grandparents were named Kempher, the grandmother's maiden name having been Lohr. They also were natives of Pennsylvania and of German descent. Devout members of the Christian church, it is said they never missed a service in that church, although being compelled to drive six miles to worship over roads that were very bad. To them were born
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